Mohana Krishna
Mohana Krishna is an accomplished carnatic classical vocalist.
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Ray Charles
Blues singer
Place of Birth : Albany , Georgia
Ray Charles was a pioneering soul singer who helped shape the sound of rhythm and blues and brought a soulful sound to everything from country music to pop standards to 'God Bless America'. His birth name was Ray Charles Robinson but he shortened it when he entered show business because of the fame of Sugar Ray Robinson.
Jose Feliciano
Guitar, Vocals
Visual impairment : Blind since birth
Joaquin Rodrigo
Composer
Visual impairment : Lost sight at the age of three due to diphtheria
Joaquin (pronounced "hwakeen") Rodrigo was born in Saguntum (now Sagunt), an ancient city in Valencia, in eastern Spain. When he was just three years old, an epidemic of diphtheria made him almost blind. Medical treatment was in vain and then he went completely blind due to glaucoma. He once said it was his blindness that led him to the field of music.
Manvendra Singh Patwal
Meet the young and energetic Captain of the Indian Blind Cricket Team, Manvendra Singh Patwal.
George Shearing
Jazz Pianist
Visual impairment : Blind since birth
Blind from birth, Shearing was born in London on August 13, 1919 , the youngest of nine children. He received classical musical training at Linden Lodge, a school for the blind, where he also displayed his double threat abilities. Not only could he quickly memorize scores, he could effortlessly play by ear any tune he heard. A teacher at Linden introduced him to jazz.
Erroll Louis Garner
Jazz Pianist
Date of Birth : June 15, 1921
Place of birth : Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Died : January 2, 1977, Los Angeles, CA
Doc Watson
American folk singer
Visual impairment : Lost eyesight at age one
Born : March 3, 1923
Clarence Carter
Guitar, Vocals
Visual impairment : Blind since birth
Born in Montgomery, Alabama, on January 4, 1936, Clarence grew up and learned to play guitar from listening to records by John Lee Hooker, Lightnin' Hopkins and Jimmy Reed. He attended Alabama State College in Montgomery where he earned a music degree. By the time he graduated, Carter had developed sufficiently diverse skills that on his recordings, he would not only sing and play guitar but also occasionally do his own keyboard work and write and arrange, writing charts in Braille.
Blind Willie McTell
Blues singer and Guitarist
Visual impairment : Blind from birth
Willie Samuel McTell was probably born in 1898 (although May 5, 1901 has also been given as his year of birth) south of Thomson , Georgia , about thirty miles west of the city of Augusta.
Yasmin Sawhney
A creative person by instinct, Yasmin Sawhney is both a painter and a poet.
Goma Rai
Goma Rai cracked the CAT in 2010.
Karan Singhania
Karan Singhania scored 92.4% in Class 12 examinations conducted by Central Board of Secondary Education (C.B.S.E.) for the academic ye
SC directs Centre to appoint blind to IAS
Three years after he cleared the civil services exams, a visually impaired man, Ravi Prakash Gupta, is all set to join the elite Indian Administrative Services (IAS) with the Supreme Court on Wednesday directing the Centre to grant him posting within eight weeks.
A bench of Justices Altamas Kabir and Cyriac Joseph also directed the Centre to pay Rs 20,000 to Gupta who successfully argued his own case in SC.
Second sight: breakthrough research offers hope to millions
EU-funded scientists have succeeded in awakening dormant vision cones, an achievement that may lead to saving millions of people from going blind. The dormant cones, which normally remain in the eye even after blindness has occurred, were successfully reactivated by an international team of scientists led by the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Switzerland and the Institut de la vision in France. The findings are published in the journal Science.
IIT-Bombay tech will help blind see Taj Mahal
A visually challenged person cannot see the beauty of the Taj Mahal. But now he will be able to ‘feel’ the beauty of the monument by touching the exteriors of a scaled-down model of the Taj.
Sounds unreal, but a team from IIT-Bombay believes that the use of haptic technology — in simpler words, the science of touch — can make this a reality.
HC seeks govt take on admission to disabled
The Bombay High Court has directed the Maharashtra government to clarify its stand on allowing visually challenged and other disabled students from pursuing professional and health science courses.
The court was hearing a petition filed by a 17-year-old visually challenged Ruparel College student who is seeking admission to the physiotherapy course at G S Medical College attached to KEM Hospital. A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice S C Dharmadhikari has sought the information from the government by August 2.
Artificial corneas restore sight for the first time
Scientists hope the breakthrough will also slash the cornea transplant waiting list which every year falls short by more than 500 in Britain alone.
The new technique involves growing human tissue or collagen in the laboratory and then shaping it using a contact lens mould.
Damaged and scarred tissue from the front of the eye is then removed and the "biosynthetic" replacement is stitched in its place.
Eventually existing cells and nerves in the eye grow over the artificial cornea incorporating it fully into the eye.
Table Talk: Blind restaurant an eye-opener for London diners
Dining in a completely dark room, unaware what's on your plate while sitting next to a complete stranger may not sound like an ideal restaurant experience but it's certainly an intriguing way to spend a rainy night in London.
Dans le Noir?, close to London's City financial district, is staffed by blind waiters and waitresses who become your eyes according to the restaurant, whose original Paris branch opened in 2004.
Stevie Wonder strikes chord in UN appeal for disabled
Blind US soul music star Stevie Wonder struck up a singalong at a UN agency Monday as he urged countries to unlock access to copyrighted material that disabled people need for their education and livelihoods.
"What I would like to do today is launch what I call the 'Declaration of freedom for people with disabilities'," he told delegates at the opening of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) assembly in Geneva.
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